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I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality. — Jonathan Brandis

Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off. — Steven Brust

The best way to direct kids is to be natural and honest. — Maiwenn

I just can't operate with any direct awareness of the pressures I might be under. — Michael Lehmann

Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with. — Frederick Lenz

I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell. — Peter Hedges

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about. — Adele

The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He must direct himself toward performance and contribution — Matt Perman

Whatever you accomplish in a lifetime will be in direct proportion to the intensity and persistence of your faith — Bob Proctor

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies. — Walter Hill

Yo, zombie guys, pay attention. When it's Simon says, that means you have to do what I say. Let's be more direct. The Slayer says die, like, forever. — Christopher Golden

Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do. — Brian Tracy

The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us. — Earl Nightingale

I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job. — Judd Apatow

Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation. — Swami Sivananda

When you direct a film, everything should be about the story and nothing else. — Esra Saydam

What is meant to be heard is necessarily more direct in expression, and perhaps more boldly coloured, than what is meant for the reader. — Robertson Davies

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. — Denis Waitley

No teaching could be more direct than just to sit down. — Shunryu Suzuki

Treat others as you would be treated. Devote yourself to that, for there's no more direct approach to Humanity. — Mencius

Ultimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight. — Jonathan Gruber

When you love what's deeper, your response is direct. There won't be a fear in dropping directly into the deeper. — John De Ruiter

I will direct one day, but I have a feeling that it will be very limited. — John Travolta

I'm trying to be confrontational and direct. If I lack directness then I only have myself to blame because I lack the skills to make my point clear. — Henry Rollins

I like my drawings to be direct. I don't generally work on them for too long, but that doesn't mean that they are not works in their own right. — Jeff Koons

Sometimes theft can be as simple and direct as a fist in an unsuspecting face, and sometimes it can be as complex as a military operation. — Michael McClung

When you focus on the journey, you will be blessed with guardian angels to direct your path. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control. — Madeline Zima

I would love to be able to get behind the camera and direct actors. I think that would be a lot of fun. — Colin Hanks

The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive. — Bill Murray

I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you. — Grace Slick

You will be paid in direct proportion to the value you create in the marketplace. — T. Harv Eker

Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment. — Francois Rabelais

Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute. — Junius

The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act. — John Malkovich

You can learn to direct yourself to be peaceful inside regardless of what is happening with your body. — Lee L Jampolsky

For me, Twitter has given me a direct line to the world - it gave me an opportunity to be like, This is my voice. — Laura Benanti

Any teaching that doesn't direct itself to the transformation of your mind, that is as you associate yourself, ultimately is going to be meaningless. — Master Teacher

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future. — Saul Alinsky

I want to direct. It's something that I know I'll be really good at. — Gedde Watanabe

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness. — George Eliot

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication. — Richard Louv

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. — Sun Tzu

Direct your eye right inward, and you'll find A thousand regions in your mind Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be Expert in home-cosmography. — Henry David Thoreau

How does distance look? is a simple direct question. It extends from a spaceless within to the edge of what can be loved. — Anne Carson

and for that, every single one of your direct descendants had to overcome dangers, looks, and sickness long enough to be able to have sex. — Shawn Achor

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference. — Marty Feldman

I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director. — Gael Garcia Bernal

Be direct and sure of the path you tread, but not so sure that you pass the paths better suited to your feet, brother. — Erica Cameron

I really wanted the house to be a character. And I knew, I said, I'll produce that one, but if I direct it, I need to build a house. — Guillermo Del Toro

Bear in mind that parts of the score may be devoid of direct musical relevance. — Cornelius Cardew

A place has almost a shyness of a person with strangers; its secret is not to be surprised by too direct interrogation. — Arthur Symons

I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people. — Henry Paulson

It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth. — Albert Einstein

With empathy we don't direct, we follow. Don't just do something, be there. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming. — Buzz Aldrin

Often the Muse will not respond to direct and logical requests. She must be lured in with the playful and gentle. — Jill Badonsky

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path. — Florence Griffith Joyner

I don't want to direct music videos at all. Any work I do with a camera I'd like to be for a film. — Giuseppe Andrews

I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor. — Melissa Leo

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously. — Terry Tempest Williams

I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct. — Isaac Asimov

Sometimes you just get giggles leprosy and it can't be helped. I find that there's a direct correlation between fatigue and breaking. — John Cho

Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack. — Ezra Taft Benson

I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center. — Joel Edgerton

Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me. — Steven Spielberg

I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't it be a treat to eventually direct them one day. — Renee O'Connor

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all. — Mark Epstein

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves. — Norman Tebbit

What is the one bright spot on the entire horizon that would give someone an opportunity to be retrained to learn new skills? Direct selling. — Paul Zane Pilzer

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab. — David Wenham

If you want to say no, be firm and direct. — Auliq Ice

I have no desire to direct at all. I know how much pressure it is, and, trust me, it's so much easier and so much more fun to be an actor. — Jewel Staite

My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends. — Abel Ferrara

I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once. — Manish Dayal

To be direct and honest is not safe. — William Shakespeare

Know you can direct a path around them and be your best life if you want to. — Lee Vickers

If you can't be direct, why be? — Lily Tomlin

The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word. — Elizabeth George

I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it. — Lea Michele

They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present. — Daniel L. Pals

Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved by direct counting. — Ernst Mach

Your decisions determine where you will or will not be in later days to come. Rise up and direct them well! — Israelmore Ayivor

I did not expect to be allowed to be an actor, to be allowed to eventually direct things. — Kenneth Branagh

It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something. — Glenn Close

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere. — William Dean Howells

Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects. — Ian Ziering

I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct. — Eudora Welty

We must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations. — Stephen Jay Gould

My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that. — Donald Byrd

I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that. — Catherine Hardwicke

My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box. — Tinashe

Any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation. — Theodore Annemann

A consequence may be the very thing that saves us because it was the only thing loud enough to get our attention. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there. — William Zinsser

Nobody should be allowed to create general advertising until he has served his apprenticeship in direct-response — David Ogilvy

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge. — Ramana Maharshi

I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road. — Konosuke Matsushita

I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct: "Okay, I want to be the boss." — Thomas Bidegain